The head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, Pavel Zhebrivsky, announced plans to transfer the Ukrainian checkpoint Novotroitskoye 8 kilometers closer to the contact line and the seizure of 9 villages located in the «gray zone». 

‘We are planning to transfer the checkpoint Novotroitskoye to the village of Berezovoe in the next three months. It is almost 8 km deep, closer to the contact line. Today, we discussed this with representatives of the State Border Service and the police. We also visited for the location of the future checkpoint. I watched through the binoculars the checkpoint of the Rashists and the vicinities of the temporarily occupied Dokuchaevsk. 

After the transfer of the checkpoint,, 9 villages will be removed from the so-called «gray zone»: Berezovoye, Stepnoe, Taramchuk, Glavnoe, Novomikhaylovka, Paraskoveevka, Konstantinovka, Vodyanoye and Sladkoye,’ wrote Jebrivsky on his Facebook page.

According to: Новости Донецкой Республики